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One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Polo Player
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Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.
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When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
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Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.
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We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
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